Augujt 1749. 



main during divine fervice, and the clergy- 

 man is in the church, where the nuns 

 reach him his facerdotal clothes through a 

 hole, for they are no* allowed to go into 

 the veftry, and to be in the fame room 

 with the prieft. There are ftitt feveral 

 other rooms and halls here, the ufe of 

 which I do not remember. The loweft 

 ftory contains a kitchen, bake-houfe, feve- 

 ral butteries, &c. In the garrets they keep 

 their corn, and dry their linen. In the 

 middle ftory is a balcony on the outfide, 

 almoft round the whole building, where 

 the nuns are allowed to take air. The 

 profpedt from the convent is very fine on 

 every iide ; the river, the fields, and the 

 meadows out of town, appear there to great 

 advantage. On one fide of the convent is 

 a large garden, in which the nuns are at 

 liberty to walk about ; it belongs to the 

 convent, and is furrounded with a high 

 wall. There is quantity of all forts of 

 fruits in it. This convent, they fay, con- 

 tains about fifty nuns, mofl of them ad- 

 vanced in years, fcarce any being under 

 forty years of age. At this time there 

 Were two young ladies among them, who 

 were inftructed in thofe things, which be- 

 long to the knowledge of nuns. They are 

 not allowed to become nuos immediately 



after 



